Sight Word Game

I am always looking for interesting and fun ways to encourage Boogs' learning. We routinely practice his sight words by writing them, playing a matching game, and having a treasure hunt for them. Beth, at Living Life Intentionally, recently posted a free Bug Sight Word Game printable. It has sight words for kindergarten through 3rd grade. Boogs loves bugs, so I printed it off for him. He saw me cutting the kindergarten words apart and asked if he could help. I had him write the letter "k" on the back of the kindergarten cards. We are saving the 1st - 3rd grade words for a later date.

Then we got out a bug jar craft so we would have a place to keep the sight word bugs.

Now we were ready to play. Boogs really enjoyed when I pulled out a bee card and lost all of my cards. He worked hard to make sure he read his cards correctly so he could keep them.

Later in the day, we took the game over to a friend's house. Boogs and B stopped running around the backyard long enough to fit in one quick game. (Yes, Boogs is wearing a Halloween shirt. He picked out his own clothes.)

I think we will be playing this game quite a bit.

One of My Favorite Things

One of my favorite things is watching Boogs enjoy reading on his own. He loves to get his Lego Club Jr. and Click magazines in the mail.

The Case of the Missing Scooter

Boogs loves mysteries. We have read many mystery stories together. Some of his favorite mysteries are The Boxcar Children books. Recently, I introduced him to the Hardy Boys. He gets so excited trying to figure out the clues to solve the mysteries. This has transferred over from books to real life for Boogs.  Last week, Boogs found an empty earring box under a clothing rack at Kohl's. He crawled out from under the rack yelling, "Momma, we have to alert store security. There has been a crime and I am holding one of the clues!" Boogs turned the empty box in to a cashier and then said he would continue to look for clues to solve the mystery of the missing jewels. Since then, he has asked me several times if store security has "made any progress" on the crime. To play off of his excitement for solving mysteries and to encourage his reading, I planned a mystery for him to solve. I hid his scooter and then placed notes that he had to “decode” to find the location of the next clue. The notes eventually led him to the missing scooter. He immediately asked when I was going to have another mystery for him to solve.

Found a clue on the balcony.

Decoding the clues.

The case is solved.

Spanish Library Books

Boogs and I go to the library every week for story time. We started going to lapsit story time when Boogs was nine weeks old and have continued to go since then. He loves to read and look through books. Recently I started checking out one English/Spanish book each week (Sorry Grandmaman, I am unable to pronounce French correctly). He seems to really enjoy learning new words in Spanish.  I don't speak Spanish, but I remember a lot of the words that I learned when I was little. My parents put my sister and I into bilingual classes from kindergarten through 4th grade. I think it is so important for Boogs to learn another language. Hopefully, our weekly Spanish books will be the beginning of his acquisition of the Spanish language.